Blackwell House

Blackwell House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Roosevelt Island, New York, New York
Coordinates	40°45′37″N 73°57′4″W / 40.76028°N 73.95111°W / 40.76028; -73.95111Coordinates: 40°45′37″N 73°57′4″W / 40.76028°N 73.95111°W / 40.76028; -73.95111
Built	1796
NRHP Reference #	72000862[1]
Added to NRHP	February 25, 1972

Blackwell House is an historic house on Roosevelt Island (formerly known as Manning's Island, later Blackwell's Island, then Welfare Island) in New York City.

After the English defeated the Dutch in 1666, Captain John Manning seized the island, which became known as Manning's Island, and twenty years later, Manning's son-in-law, Robert Blackwell, became the island's new owner and namesake.^[2]

In 2010

In 1796, Blackwell's great-grandson Jacob Blackwell constructed the Blackwell House, which is the island's oldest landmark, New York City's sixth oldest house, and one of the city's few remaining examples of 18th-century architecture.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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